Budget Review

Member States must come clean on use of taxpayers' money

After six years of political pressure by the Group of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) the European Commission today finally showed some willingness towards ensuring more transparency and better accountability of the management of...
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The Council can not escape parliamentary scrutiny for the proper management of its budget

Liberals and Democrats supported the refusal to discharge the Council for the implementation of its budget in 2009 as decided in today's European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)...
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ALDE ready to reject 2011 budget if Council does not consider new system of own resources.

The Lisbon Treaty puts the European Parliament on equal footing with the Council where budgetary codecision is concerned and the members of parliament intend to use this new power to put into action their fundamental choices.
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